. The book of the garden. Gardening. 650 GEOMETRICAL FLOWER-GARDENS. columns of marble, or engraved on trees, or rocks ; such sentences being always chosen for them as correspond with the scene of the inscriptions, which thereby acquire additional force in themselves, and likewise give a stronger expression to the ; Busts and Pedestals. — Busts, when placed on appropriate pedestals, become, as it were, connected with statues, and their disposal will be governed by the same rules. They are, perhaps, more appropriate appendages to the walls of a house, or for niches in the walls. They
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 650 GEOMETRICAL FLOWER-GARDENS. columns of marble, or engraved on trees, or rocks ; such sentences being always chosen for them as correspond with the scene of the inscriptions, which thereby acquire additional force in themselves, and likewise give a stronger expression to the ; Busts and Pedestals. — Busts, when placed on appropriate pedestals, become, as it were, connected with statues, and their disposal will be governed by the same rules. They are, perhaps, more appropriate appendages to the walls of a house, or for niches in the walls. They are sometimes, however, placed on pedes- tals along the sides of walks, as at the grounds at Stoke Park, long the residence of the descendants of the celebrated Wil- liam Penn; and on some places on the Con- tinent, such as that of the Baron Joseph D'Hoogvorst, at Limmal, near Brussels, and elsewhere, where taste for this kind of decoration seems greater than with us. The grounds at Stoke were originally laid out in the geometric style, and in accordance with the original mansion, which was considered as one of the best Elizabethan houses in England. The present house is in the Grecian style, and the grounds are completely changed, and laid out in what may be called the classi- cal style of the poet Mason; the forms of the masses of shrubs and flower-beds being chiefly circular or elliptical, and each seems distinguished by appropri- ate statues or busts placed on pedestals or therms. They are, no doubt, good likenesses of the great men they repre- sent ; but for the edification of those who had not a personal acquaintance with them, in general (or at least they did some years ago) they carry their names attached to them. § 5.—SEATS. These, if of architectural forms, are admissible in gardens of the geometrical stvle, both as being ornamental and useful. "The chairs, of which figs. 881, 882, 883 are examples, are from designs furnished by the celebrated Professor Hei
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